SSS (Slow, Straight, Slurred): A Reminder Why It Helps
Hear that tripping over myself? All that tongue getting in my way? Those 8th note lines coming out so uneven?
Killer Saxophone Warm Up
Warmup your embouchure, forearms, and fingers while increasing your air capacity and focusing your mind.
Warming up on Green Dolphin St.
A demonstration of how I sometimes begin a practice session by playing a tune.
Chromatic Interval Warm-Up
A simple, yet extremely effective warm-up exercise that focuses your technique, improves your time feel, clarifies your intonation…all while training your ears.
What are some effective physical warm-ups?
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Generate Practice Ideas From an Improvised Warm-Up (2 of 2)
Thinking in shapes, using rhythmic ideas to play distant intervals, developing evenness, and motifs as a gateway to playing over changes.
Generate Practice Ideas From An Improvised Warm-Up (1 Of 2)
How I discover things to practice from an improvised warm-up. This gets into vocalizing notes, intonation, and an alternative to scooping notes.
The Ultimate Pre-Warm-Up Warm-Up
Over years of touring with little to no place to warm-up, I developed this routine to get me feeling like I’d been playing for hours.